World Games 2017

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Host city	Wroclaw, Poland
Opening ceremony	20 July
Closing ceremony	30 July
Main venue	Stadion Miejski
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The World Games 2017 will be hosted in Wrocław, Poland and will run from July 20-30, 2017. It was chosen by the International World Games Association on January 12, 2012.

Bidding process

Four cities had expressed interest in hosting the 2017 Games. After examination of the files, the application of Genoa, Italy was not brought to the next step. The candidate cities have been announced by the IWGA in August 2011. They are^[1]

• Budapest
• Cape Town
• Wrocław

Just few days before the awarding ceremony Cape Town withdrew its bid for financial reasons. The final decision was announced by Ron Froehlich, President of the International World Games Association on 12 January 2012 in Lausanne. The 10th edition of The World Games was awarded to Wrocław.

Sports

Sport	Discipline
Air sports	Parachuting - Canopy Piloting Glider Aerobatics Paramotoring
Archery	Archery - Compound Field Archery - Barebow Field Archery - Recurve
Handball	Beach Handball
Billiards	Pool (9-Ball) Carom (3-Cushion) Snooker
Boules sport	Lyonnaise Petanque Raffa
Bowling	Ten Pin – Single Ten Pin - Mixed
Canoe	Canoe Polo
Dance sport	Standard Latin Rock'n'Roll Salsa
Finswimming	Pool
Fistball	Men
Floorball	Men
Flying disc	Ultimate
Gymnastics	Rhythmic Sports Acrobatics Sports Aerobics Synchronized Trampoline Double-Mini Trampoline Tumbling
Ju-Jitsu	Fighting - Various Weightclasses Duo Newaza
Karate	Various Weightclasses Kata
Korfball	Mixed Teams
Lacrosse	Women
Lifesaving	Pool
Muaythai	Various Weightclasses
Orienteering	Sprint Middle Distance Sprint relay
Powerlifting	Various Weightclasses
Roller sports	Inline-Hockey - Men Speed Skating - Track Speed Skating - Road Artistic
Sport climbing	Lead Speed Boulder
Squash	Single
Sumo	Various Weightclasses
Tug of War	Indoor (Women) Outdoor (Men)
Water Ski & Wakeboard	Classic Waterski Wakeboard

In Addition to the official sports above, the following sports were selected by the host city for the invitational sports program:

• American football
• Speedway
• Kickboxing
• Indoor Rowing

Participant countries

Afghanistan (0) Albania (0) Algeria (0) Andorra (0) Angola (0) Argentina (11) Armenia (0) Australia (37) Austria (10) Azerbaijan (2) Bahamas (0) Bahrain (0) Barbados (0) Belarus (9) Belgium (15) Bosnia and Herzegovina (0) Bolivia (0) Brazil (10) Brunei (0) Bulgaria (1) Cambodia (1) Canada (23) Chile (0) China (23) Colombia (0) Costa Rica (0) Croatia (1) Cuba (0) Czech Republic (1)

DR Congo (0) Denmark (2) Dominican Republic (0) Ecuador (0) Estonia (0) Egypt (1) Fiji (2) Finland (0) Faroe Islands (0) France (9) Georgia (1) Germany (48) Great Britain (36) Greece (1) Guatemala (0) Guam (0) Hong Kong (0) Hungary (0) Iceland (0) India (0) Indonesia (0) Iran (2) Ireland (0) Israel (2) Italy (3) Ivory Coast (0) Jamaica (0) Japan (58)

Kazakhstan (4) Kenya (0) Kosovo (4) Kyrgyzstan (0) Laos (0) Latvia (0) Lebanon (1) Lithuania (0) Macau (0) Madagascar (1) Malaysia (0) Mexico (0) Moldova Monaco (1) Mongolia (4) Montenegro (0) Morocco (1) Myanmar (1) Namibia (2) Netherlands (16) New Zealand (1) New Caledonia (0) Panama (0) Paraguay (0) Peru (1) Philippines (0) Poland (72) (host) Portugal (6)

Puerto Rico (0) Qatar (15) Romania (0) Russia (12) Samoa (0) Serbia (10) Slovakia (2) Slovenia (2) Singapore (0) South Africa (4) South Korea (1) Spain (4) Sri Lanka (0) Sweden (2) Switzerland (11) Tajikistan (0) Thailand (5) Tonga (0) Tunisia (1) Turkey (1) Chinese Taipei (15) Ukraine (8) United Arab Emirates (0) United States (49) Uruguay (0) Uzbekistan (4) Venezuela (1) Vietnam (12) Zambia (0)

References

1. Candidate host cities for 2017

External links

• The World Games 2017 Wrocław